Thanks very much for this analysis, I've been putting off drawing up
some numbers of my own for a week or so now ;)
One thing that you are missing (unfortunately a more qualitative
distinction rather than quantitative) is that appengine handles all
the scaling for you. Ec2 doesn't do anything to
So lets see, I need to import 12 million records...
83.33 days to import.
On the latest GAE blog posting it says:
"Database import: move GBs of data easily into your App Engine app.
Matching export capabilities are coming soon, hopefully within a
month."
Clearly this is going to have to be som
I'm not so certain that this means that the idea he describes is
against the TOS. I put the emphasis on "intended to avoid incurring
fees", which is not what he's talking about.
In fact, this exact idea was discussed at the GAE/Cloud Computing
Meetup in Palo Alto last month which had several of
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Larkin2 wrote:
>
> In the example mention at:
> http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/commontasks.html#update
> I don't understand what is going here: comment.comment_text = db.Text
> (updated_comment)
>
> What is db.Text ?
>
> confused, your help is greatly appreci
